Word: beaverisms
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...tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four o'clock." Another corridor, a door; we enter, and the first object that meets our eye is a black, battered beaten, Brimless beaver with the magic legend upon it, H. '85, Below the hat is suspended a bottle, a cologne bottle we conjecture. About the broken handles of the wreck of what once might have been a campaign torch are tied three filthy rags. What visions these symbols conjured...
...retiring of the Union forces two miles. Instead of pressing the attack the Confederates retreated. The battles of Glendale and Seven Pines followed shortly without decisive results, other than to protect McClellan's line of communication with the York river. An attack is now made by Lee on Beaver Dam, which is easily repulsed through the failure of Jackson to come to time. McClellan now gives up all idea of an offensive campaign and begins his inglorious change of base and retreat to the James river...
Lost.-Last week, a pair of beaver gloves. Finder will confer a favor by returning the same to 44 Gray...
However, like all other students he found the paths of knowledge very steep and hard to climb, and we read the sorrowful intelligence in a letter from the young man's tutor to his mother that "not long since your kinsman being in the Colledge Buttry at Beaver at the pmitted hower between 8 and 9 of ye clock at night, the Deane came in, charged him to be gone, he told him he would and was presently deputing. The Deane tells him, unless Sr Gawdy you bad forthwith gone I should have sett you out : upon that your kinsman...
...trustees of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., are anxious to secure an endowment fund for the college of $100,000. They have recently received toward this $30,000 in seven per cent. bonds given them by Mr. Thomas Beaver of Danville, Pa., an uncle of General Beaver, the Republican candidate for governor...